Best HFY Reddit Stories: Help Arrives (r/HFY)

[@cheeseninja1115]

I love the idea of humans not being the warrior race, but the foolish heroes that run head first into danger for others.

[@fireblast133]

it takes a very fine balance of bravery, foolishness, stubbornness, and grit to be the one to say, 'there is danger over there, people are fleeing, I must ensure others unable to flee are pulled out.'

[@Rand0mPeon]

@@fireblast133 I'm stealing that, but before I do, I'm leaving a like. 'cause I've got manners and shit.

[@magoichi75]

@@Rand0mPeon professionals have standards.

[@crystalalarm3]

The Lamenter Creed says it best, "For those we cherish we die in glory."

[@____________838]

“Why not both?”

[@angrycrusader3926]

Combat Medic rules: 1. Good men will die. 2. Doc can't save everyone. 3. Doc will go through hell to break rules 1 & 2.

[@markschneider8815]

Reminds me of Henry Blake on M*A*S*H. "Rule Number One: In war people die. Rule Number Two: Doctors can't change Rule Number One."

[@ravenouself4181]

Hdes: Hey bro, how many times have You done this? 300? Here, take a souvenir.

[@dinkoz1]

30 years ago when I was a young platoon leader if the other side even accidentally shot at our Lady Doc they would get back every caliber available from our side, once I even called in the 203mm to send a message. No one shoots at Doc and gets away with it

[@dwrdwlsn5]

Do NOT get in doc's way or hurt doc around his/her boys. BAD THINGS.

[@Nempo13]

@@dinkoz1 In Afghanistan my buddy's unit was under attack. They took pot shots at them and one almost hit their doc. One of the grunts yelled out at the commander. "Hey captain, doc was almost hit." He heard back "Oh fuck them, we have a Ghost Rider nearby." They called in the AC-130 and told them their medic was nearly hit. That thing rained death on the enemy position FOR AN HOUR. The AC-130 is a cargo plane fitted with artillery cannons. They can level towns flat by themselves.

[@sonofjack6286]

This was a good story, a nice change of pace. Rather than seeing humans just beating aliens through their military strength, they show that they're willing to spend their time and energy ensuring that they can save everyone they can and heal them.

[@Nyghtking]

Two sides. The "I'll beat the shit out of you if its the last thing I do" and the "You're not dying on me even if I had to drag your happy ass back from hell itself."

[@alganhar1]

Yeah? depends where the human came from. Western Europe, fine, the USA, well I sure as hope that poor bastard Alien can afford the medical bills. Given the story probably not......

[@midgetman4206]

@@Nyghtking "Duality of Man" is indeed quite a real thing.

[@psychronia]

I have once heard the sentiment that the earliest form of civilization paleontology can find is a healed femur bone. The femur is the biggest bone in the body, and if one is broken, the person will be unable to walk for months. That means that they would have needed someone to hunt or forage for them, to provide them shelter, to assist them in taking care of daily needs. A healed femur is the earliest unequivocal proof of human beings _helping each other_ not just for survival, but simply because people are meant to help other people.

[@truekurayami]

It's called pack bonding. Humans are a heard/pack animal by nature and we see the life of those we bond to are just as important as our own to survive. While people are less driven by this instinct anymore it is still one of the most powerful we every developed and I fear for the day we loose it.

[@Amoth_oth_ras_shash]

social species after all already have the 'hardware' to favor cooperation development... that said though i also read somewhere ,that someone found smilodon fossils or such... where the hind leg hade popped out its joint ,but the creature hade lived long enough after that for a new joint socket to start form at the bones current location....makes a fascinating hypothetical of smilodons having started the same development like humans but ,bad luck ment the food sources ther physics needed wanish before they could compensate for it

[@BigZad42]

@@truekurayami I think the idea of pack bonding is why human settlement work best with smaller closer connected groups rather than massive cities. If people back them could care for someone with such a massive debilitating injury yet like in new york just walk past someone dying on the side walk.

[@leechowning2712]

@@truekurayami actually it is defined as the most basic indicator of civilization because it is the one thing that the pack bond does not cover. Pack Bond will cause a animal to risk itself to protect a litter mate or another member of the pack during the emergency. There is not a animal among Us, not even the great apes or the canids, which carries the trait of caring for one who has been completely crippled. Once the pack realizes that the member is essentially useless for months or more, even among elephants and dolphins who are the most family oriented that I can think of, the pack will leave them. Creation of fire and using tools are indicators of intelligence. Language and learned behaviors are indicators of society. Keeping alive one who has completely lost the ability to take care of themselves is the indicator of society. And once humanity stops doing that, on a general scale, I would have to say society had ended.

[@lordfelidae4505]

@@leechowning2712 so we *don’t* live in a society.

[@ImPotao]

I like this, this is nice. Being space clerics instead of space orcs.

[@Zulk_RS]

Why not both? Sounds like Orc Clerics to me.

[@spacetechempire510]

Allow us to help bring you up from your lowest points. And we will help you achieve your dreams. And allow us to storm the zones of disasters and we will save the meany. Allow us to heal the sick and wounded and you will be great full. But don’t threaten us or our patents, don’t threaten the young in our care or the old. For that will bring a iroure so heavy and fast your worlds will shatter and your people will revolt.

[@darksythe2226]

Ah see space orc is our race. After that we pick our classes

[@Inquisitor-Yog-Sothoth]

No Wagh?...

[@lloydkeith3061]

No reason we can't have a nice juicy carrot to accompany our very nasty stick.

[@Talon1124]

Tis a simple act to take a life. Tis a far nobler one to save a life. Those who can do both are to be revered and feared in equal measure.

[@leifjbj]

I remember this quote. Do you know where it is from?

[@Talon1124]

@@leifjbj undortunately i don't. Sorry

[@leifjbj]

Thanks for responding anyway

[@jayeisenhardt1337]

@@leifjbj I only remember LOTR where Gandalf was like, it was pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. something something many who deserve death, but many deserve life. Can you give it to them? It's easier to destroy than build. Easy to give death to the living but none can give life to the dead.

[@leifjbj]

@@jayeisenhardt1337 thanks

[@Zedyne]

This is a really nice concept. Humanity being the one species in the galaxy that's known for their selfless care and aid, helping those whom cannot help themselves. Makes me wonder though, how would the countless other species react if their human saviours were attacked, for seemingly no reason?

[@theunlikelyhero123meh3]

I pity the one who attacks the compassionate... For the compassionate knows evil, and knows those capable of it and they will not restrain them.

[@fireblast133]

@@theunlikelyhero123meh3 Those who choose compassion over violence do so because they know the horrors of violence, they lived through it. They let those memories fuel their current deeds. Never again. But when pushed to the brink, when those they are showing care for are threatened, they will unleash their violent side. And it is the scariest, and final thing you shall see.

[@Gordon519]

"god help you if canada has declared war on you, for when canada goes to war: there is little that will stop them"

[@Jason-sm4oc]

The medics stand-by and call in the marines. Obviously the aggressors haven't answered that little nagging question ...'How did these little dudes get so good at putting people back together?' Answer: We have had thousands of years of practice fixing people because we are so very good at breaking them. Breaking them is what we do. fixing them is just something to do afterwards. Any non-combative aliens watching would have their questions answered as they see humanity's boundless fury when we have a focus for our rage, they will witness the predator with millions of years of programming outfitted with the products of centaurys of warfare unleashed upon the aggressor. The medics will stand-by and smile knowing that soon they will get more practice.

[@mattoverminder]

It doesn't even say that humans are the *only* species to render aid, which I appreciate. Just that humans do. The story gives us the POV of the character, and it is completely believable that they come from a culture that doesn't see the value of healing their injured, and that the concept would be alien to them, and lets us fill in the rest. This one shows more than tells, and I think a lot of other HFY stories do too much of the opposite and suffer for it.

[@dustinfritzfarr9529]

Coming soon to a theater near you, Doctors Without Borders: IN SPACE *inset cheesy sci-fi sound effects*

[@Navy89SEALs]

I got a kick out of the reaction to seeing a human. Sees the doctor walk in to his curtained room, one glance at human and is immediately like "fuck this!", and proceeds to literally try scurrying up the wall. 😆

[@xwafflesx]

Tbh that's my reaction to unexpectedly seeing a human

[@blue-cs3fk]

​@@xwafflesxnothing scares a human more than another human

[@thelaughinghyenas8465]

This was a nice, pleasant episode, showing the better side of humanity.

[@crystalalarm3]

Suffer not the xenos to suffer I guess.

[@chialeux514]

"...and when the patient is well enough, we DRAIN HIM OF EVERY SINGLE CREDIT HE'LL EVER PRODUCE FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE !" This is when I learned to tell the difference between a humane doctor and an American doctor... the most despicable being ever !

[@anonygent]

Most doctors won't bother... hospitals, clinics, and the purchasers of medical debt, on the other hand, are relentless.

[@superdave6889]

"Better to die saving lives than to live taking them" Captain James Tiberius Kirk, Commanding Officer, Starship U.S.S. Enterprise, Registry # NCC 1701

[@Iluvantir]

"What a piece of work is a man, How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, In form and moving how express and admirable, In action how like an Angel, In apprehension how like a god, The beauty of the world, The paragon of animals." ~ Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 - Shakespeare

[@ObservingLibertarian]

That was beautiful, I like it. I like the combat and humans are space orc varieties: but stories like this one are a welcome addition as well. Excellent narration as usual, keep putting out content bro, good stuff.

[@arandomguy1336]

How do you have 300 subs without any content/videos. (I think you bought them)

[@ObservingLibertarian]

@@arandomguy1336 I don't have any idea why people click to subscribe to me, I don't make videos. I assume there's some way to keep track of an accounts comments - and people who sub to me are reading those but I aside from the occasional argument I'm just here to watch videos.

[@jackmack4181]

In every game I have played I went battle medic In battlefield 1, I always tried to save all my teammates

[@arandomguy1336]

Same, I always want to be a support but there’s either; A hacker, A loud mic spammer, A bad team that blames the support, and A game that I’m not good at and is told by everyone that I suck. (Which I normally say before a game “oh btw guys I’m not good at at the game” which is mean but what can I do, I can’t kill them too bc I’m not good at the game) Or it’s a good team that helps me with getting better, or a not bad team that doesn’t yell at me.

[@truekurayami]

@@arandomguy1336 1 gold a heal, 100 a rez, quickly changes the tune of the asshats out there, and the good ones will earn all the healing they need.

[@asurasyn]

Force multipliers.

[@truekurayami]

@@cewla3348 It's an A-hole tax joke. Toxic players get charged, good players(attitude more then skill) don't.

[@silvadelshaladin]

He will be such a heretic when he returns home.

[@IamDarkeye]

Until he comes back, fully healed from the angry mob injuries, and they think he survived because of some impossible strength.

[@clonechoopa31]

Out of the literal hundreds of HFY stories I've indulged in this is the first story that was truly wholesome way, I couldn't but shed a tear in wholesome pride knowing that this is what real combat medics are like (well... most of them).

[@DimitriKurkov]

He who risks his life for others is and always shall be the greatest warrior.

[@WarhawkTalon]

This one is really good. The thought that our type of health care is a rare idea, is a truly alien concept. I'd never considered that even an option. I also love that you used an image of the Nebulon-B Medical Frigate for the thumbnail.

[@Chokah]

*Points to the Klingons * Remember having someone kill Worf when he was paralyzed was considered normal because they never bothered with that level of medical care.

[@alganhar1]

Our type of Health Care? I hate to point this out but that is spotty here right now. In Western Europe? Yeah works, in many other places in the world, INCLUDING the USA? Nope, not so much. If that had been an American Doctor then I hope to hell that poor bastard Alien was wealthy enough to afford the medical bills.... You see? Even the fluffy HFY stories fucking ignore our real nature.

[@anonygent]

Nursing as an occupation only dates back to the Crimean war. Medicine wasn't separated from mythology and made into a science until the Renaissance.

[@gildedbear5355]

Every life is so precious that we humans figured out how to put them back together so they can keep fighting 8)

[@anonygent]

That's a political decision, not a medical one.

[@randomguy-tg7ok]

Ooh, this story. I liked this story.

[@Nezumis]

Just let it never be forgotten that in order to heal such injuries, you generally have to be able to cause such injuries. Healing is generally in lock step or just behind the ability to create war.

[@kdrapertrucker]

A lot of the knowledge used to treat trauma victims to this day were the result of Nazi experimentation in Concentration camps, many people owe their lives to the suffering of Jews, gypsies, Catholics, etc. In these horrible camps.

[@idcgaming518]

this... does put a smile on my face.

[@michaelhice7636]

Man, you gave those onion cutting ninjas a soundtrack to aid them!

[@wyvernharries4788]

The onions almost got me this time. also space FEMA

[@alexs5814]

yeah, this is wholesome! dude's got a crash cource in some of the best things humanity has to offer. pity that in our quest to care for others we sometimes forget to care for our own.

[@bigjay875]

I need something positive this morning thank you for this uplifting story

[@Questor-ky2fv]

Very good story! 👍👏🏆😃There were even touches of humor as the soldier kept trying to figure out alien concepts that the doctor was discussing with him.🤔😊😄

[@IshijimaKairo]

Surgery (definition for those who have no such thing): Stabbing someone back to health.

[@bizarreworld2510]

Hats off to Doctors!

[@dennisfordii9737]

I found your channel a few days ago and I've enjoyed each story I've listened to. I want to thank . Not only are your stories entertaining they remind me ...we have some good qualities , characteristics and traits !!

[@gunnarbrown8305]

Definitely has to be one of my favorite stories

[@BlueFlameFoxX]

This makes me think of a soldier from the middle ages discover our advanced medical and accepting society (it is at heart don’t forget that)

[@youthoughtaboutit6946]

Considering value shifts, I’m pretty sure that the level of acceptance of much of modern society would anger and sicken somebody from that era from basically any part of the globe

[@kuzothedragon8659]

That put a smile on my face

[@13thBear]

What a tender-hearted story! Very well done! One of the very best in the series.

[@WardNightstone]

Humans as the S&R of the universe i love that idea

[@mojom.9221]

Awww. Thats one of the nicest and Heartwarming HFY Story I heard so far. The Wonders of Doctors and medicine: Giving People new Hope !

[@dolphinsong4169]

I loved this. And Sekmet is such an appropriate name for a ship like that.

[@TremereTT]

Live Force , from the Mummy the Curse rpg used to power their magic and reawakenings?

[@onerxowns2202]

This is SUPER AWESOME, WHOLESOME !!!

[@waggishmail2745]

I nearly cried at the part where he watches the dispatch video feeds

[@isaackinsley1662]

This is now one of my favorites

[@lancejobs]

That music shift at the end, well set

[@KSHAWK]

This made me think of something some once said to me “ your can’t save everyone but you have to try”

[@hcook1023]

Love the music included at the end, more should do this

[@BeeKisses]

FRESH PRODUCT

[@BeeKisses]

This video needs an allergy warning.

[@morganpriest7726]

CONSUME PRODUCT

[@kelvin4067]

I love this, excellent narration.

[@Filmaker001]

There was a book series some years ago that had the same base. An Intergalactic hospital where all kinds of aliens (including humans) learned about medicine and other races.

[@MercenaryX21]

I love the music at the end.

[@erikagehm2805]

The sad thing is we are both: space orcs and space clerics. We are a scary race full of violence, anger, vengeance, jealousy, ego, and selfishness yet we are also full of empathy, sympathy, love, compassion, selflessness, and mercy. As a race we need to love and come to terms with both the orc and cleric sides of our race.

[@kalebb1226]

Chaotic good orc war clerics

[@erikagehm2805]

@@kalebb1226 yeah.

[@jakevex4198]

​@kalebb1226 human medic I've killed people you know Alien but but you're a healer human medic I've had bad days

[@Melanesian-dude]

Damn, looks like the red cross is an interplanetary fforce now. This is beautiful. 🥺😢

[@wstavis3135]

Medics = Warrior Doctors. Damn right they do! To all the corpsemen, medics, flight medics, and basic EMTs: Thanks Doc.

[@masterb2130]

This.. Actually made me tear up a little bit..

[@Astro_Aladfar]

Such a delightful ending!

[@beingsneaky]

Yes I too loved this story.

[@DEMONOFLOVEANDDEATH]

For the Narrator

[@garudalead]

I love how the thumbnail is a Nebulon B, commonly used as a Medical Frigate in star wars. ^.^

[@erikaenander5374]

From the Revolutinary War up to to the present, the American soldier can be the most terrifying and tenacious warrior one is likely to ever meet, but the American soldier is also the best of us. good, decent, brave, comforting when needed…without even having to give it a second thought.

[@supsup335]

What happend to your playlists? Like "a job for a death worlder. Were those claimed, or what happened? Because i remember tgere were more rhan 3 of these out. Or am i remembering things wrong?

[@KillerBlade555]

Remembering wrong part 3 came out a couple days ago

[@victortahlor4038]

Thank you for the reading

[@dholmes3307]

What humanity can aspire to be. Great story.

[@seanbarker4610]

Lovely story

[@elinadler8448]

Honestly this kinda helps remind me why I like working in EMS

[@AgentPepsi1]

That is a really good one!! THANK YOU!! :)

[@spencersholden]

Now I see why the Nebulon-B Medical Frigate was used for the thumbnail.

[@Salt_discriminater]

So wholesome

[@Monster_Ink]

I like these kind of stories!

[@sirwinterofwinterland9901]

This was really good...

[@zacharykey9077]

For the algorithm!

[@juanitomendez9960]

let the algorithm favor this channel!!!

[@Redicule_research._ridiculous]

Blood for the blood god!

[@DepressedCrow]

the idea of soldiers tending to their own injuries if possible is a good idea as it potentially gives medical staff more time to stabilize them and prevent excess losses from lack of medical staff

[@joshtompkins1538]

True, but this particular species doesn’t have medical staff in the first place. That’s the problem.

[@TheIrishWanderer2166]

Teacher: Oh, so you wanna hurt people, but you wanna be great. Mason storm: Yeah Teacher: First, learn how to heal people, then you'll be great, to hurt people is easy.

[@regiliok]

when they said doctors without borders they meant it lol

[@zephyrstrife4668]

I have spent the last ten minutes trying to wrap my head around the time scale in this story... In the very second paragraph. If 8 standard months equals 2.3 earth months, that means each standard month is approximately 8 days long, give or take a couple hours. If 50 cycles is 72 years, then one of their cycles is approximately 1.44 years... So they have drastically shorter months but significantly more time to scale their years?

[@anathardayaldar]

Alien: I want to become a doctor. Me: You're gonna have to get straight A's in all your classes my friend. Alien: Where and what is "class" ? Me: Oh you poor med-skule hopeful...

[@charlesturk1960]

I love this story

[@ArkAngelHFB]

So at 4:30 a buddy dies... but he says he doesn't learn of it until later... But his next action is "After a moment of sadness".

[@ssryle]

Could of been shock not letting him process his thoughts correctly, people do tend to forget details like that after trauma. I would imagine aliens are the same in such.

[@spacegremlin9972]

Well fuck this made tear up near the end

[@actuallysatan7105]

This is fucking beautiful

[@edissonreyes7924]

For the blood god

[@MrKillerduck3]

No blood for the blood God here. Just blood for the wounded.

[@edissonreyes7924]

@@MrKillerduck3 the blood god needs blood to heal the wounded

[@jefferybrown6473]

Khorne cares not from where the blood flows, so long as it does! Blood for the Blood God!

[@alexdavis-mann8513]

Doctors with out borders.

[@thunderbird4636]

Medics, the unsung heroes of war.

[@zandrokozalecan888]

Ah fuck man. I'm about to cry

[@lynntenney4851]

good read

[@ReptillianStrike]

This was a beautiful story. Classic Hallmark feelgood block buster. But The idea that a space faring civilization doesn't even know what a "Class" is, as in the idea of passing information from the older generation to the newer generation doesn't make any sense. If you don't share, preserve, and pass on knowledge, you are always going to be reinventing everything and your civilization isn't going to advance

[@orionblack]

Awww that was nice!

[@hollyferay8131]

A pleasent change of pace.

[@frankgearhart21]

What is the music I didn’t see it mention in the description

[@Roosauec]

I see *Doctors without borders* made it to space.

[@bathroomprophet2310]

Nice one

[@polasamierwahsh421]

Very nice

[@tellyfanatic]

Very good.

[@kalskirata42]

currently writing a story. Might use a certain ancient piece of footwear in reference

[@CaptainFordoAlpha-77]

I like this one

[@kaiserofkush]

I love seeing mention that humans are a predator species. We might not be carnivorous, and we are sentient, but we are predators.

[@fabrisseterbrugghe8567]

This was a good choice.

[@twinightshifter239]

The red cross but in Space with other species

[@gregwunderlich4253]

Friggin Onion Ninjas!

[@Brandon-vb7yx]

I wonder if the author intended the irony of naming a medical ship Sekhmet?

[@joshtompkins1538]

I don’t think it’s ironic at all. Sekhmet is the Egyptian goddess of war and healing. It makes perfect sense for a ship full of doctors and combat medics to be named after her. Remember, someone had to go down to the battlefield to retrieve the wounded, so they clearly have actual combat medics on board.

[@backwardsman8887]

Rational humans with evil Grinch grins after bleeding hearts have left the room. "Winning the hearts and minds of the galaxy is going smoothly, it is a large waste of resources however we're gaining ground in the galactic senate."

[@goingfubar7182]

He should see Hacksaw ridge

[@axelord4ever]

I wonder if someone can help me pin down an older HFY story/setting I vaguely remember. Most probably posted originally on 4chan, and unknown if it was ever expanded upon. I don't want to get it mixed up so I'll keep it simple: Humanity evolved into a region of space that is, basically, space-mind-cancer. Every other species that go into this somewhat ill-defined zone eventually go insane in one way or another, and it was long believed that the zone was effectively void of all sophont life, until humans broke out of this region (to the pant-shitting horror of everyone who witnessed it). I'm pretty sure I _could_ find a screencap of the story someone on my PC, but that would probably take a few days to find. Really.

[@Mustangofold]

I just listened to that a few days ago.... sorry, cannot remember the name, but it was on this or Agro Squirrels channel...

[@axelord4ever]

@@Mustangofold I eventually found it, and those stories goes under the _Veil of Madness_ universe.